Zinedine Zidane isn’t fit to lace Jurgen Klopp’s boots
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp should have won Manager of the Year.
The notoriously partisan French sports news rag have shown their arse once again in a ridiculously biased fashion which calls into question forevermore their relevancy to the sport.
It was announced last month that they would not be awarding a Ballon D’or for 2019/20. Without a French candidate in the hunt this should come as no surprise.
With Ciro Immobile and Robert Lewandowski both eclipsing French media favs Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo this season. Last year they gave the nod to Messi when everyone in the world (who paid any attention at all) knew that Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk was player of the year.
They have consistently given awards to the Spanish giants Barca and Real Madrid that they just didn’t deserve. And this season is no different.
Now they have awarded manager of the year to Zinadine Zidane. What a crock of barnyard bouillabaise. Oh well, I guess I needed a really good reason to have a howler of a belly laugh today!
Zidane couldn’t manage a bad smell, let alone manage his way out of a wet paper bag. Give me a break! He didn’t come into a mid table side when he took over at Real. He isn’t winning La Liga with Valencia or even a Sevilla. He walked into a ready made side that even you or I could ‘manage’ to a title.
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Maybe the fact that he is a French national hero has something to do with their decision?
Jurgen Klopp by contrast came into a struggling and adrift Liverpool side that was seen as a second tier team by European standards. Largely, a way station, not a destination club like Real Madrid.
What he has accomplished through his own team building, and hard work puts him at a level far and away above any of those other ‘special ones’. Even Pep Guardiola – as he too only manages ready made title contenders.
The last two seasons have seen Liverpool achieve a level of greatness that virtually no one could have predicted a few short years ago.
Let Zidane take a Getafe for example, and win the Spanish league. This would require a level of management and work that Zidane has never shown even on his best day.
So Real won the title again? So what I say…they were 50/50 to do so before the season began. And they have been for the past two decades. Big management task there, to be sure.
Jurgen Klopp has stewarded and shepherded his team to their first domestic title in 30 years. He has achieved more with less than any other manager in club football, which speaks directly to his overall capabilities as a manager.
No one else even comes close. Couple this with his accomplishments at Dortmund and he is hands down the best European football manager in the past decade. Without question.
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And he is without doubt or rival the best manager in club football for this year.